This anthology commemorates a most unusual and complex person. Homer William Smith was best known as a renal physiologist whose work ranged from the evolution of the kidney to clinical studies on renal function and disease in man. He also studied and wrote about religion and philosophy, and published two novels, one of which, Kamongo, had rather a surprising success considering that its "plot" ...

Contact: [email protected] PHD protein secondary structure analysis software is a neural-network based method, rating at an expected average accuracy ∼72% for the three states helix, strand and loop when using multiple alignment input (Rost and Sander, 1993a,b, 1994). Using the PHD also allows the prediction of solvent accessibility (i.e. surface exposure) of individual amino-acid...

An experimental study is presented, which investigates the process of building qualitative simulation models using HOMER, a tool for building qualitative models of systems. HOMER consists of a number of dedicated editors aiming at decomposing the complexity of the model building process into more manageable subtasks. The aims of the present study are a) validating the original task analysis und...